Richard Dawkins

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

I love words.

I love romantic poetry.

What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.